Following Tuesday's win over Oakland, Riverdale players pose and point to teammate Clay Riggs after he returned to the ball park following a nine-week hospital stay.

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MURFREESBORO - Clay Riggs early return Riverdale baseball's Jones Field after a long hospitalization was essentially on a whim Tuesday night.

Riggs was released last Thursday from Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital after a nearly nine-week stay for two collapsed lungs and a preceding knee injury. Still weak, he had planned to try to see Riverdale plan in person next week, perhaps in the region tournament - where the Warriors had already clinched a berth as the District 7-AAA regular-season champion.

But Clay's father, Daniel, got a wild hair on Tuesday afternoon: Why not leave the ...